Oh Man! What a classic!

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling.

I'm at work, so a quote won't be posted till later, but I will do one.

Of course!!!

I friggin' love the story and the film......damn...

Never read it. Saw the movie. But, PRG saves the day again!

Sorry I didn't post another last night, but I was unexpectedly distracted. I should be able to later today. Someone else can if they have something handy.

Sin might have an idea of this one:

'Of the sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through
Eternal Death! and of the awakening to Eternal Life.

This theme calls me in sleep night after night, & ev'ry morn
Awakes me at sunrise; then I see the Saviour over me
Spreading his beams of love & dictacting the words of this mild song'


Very famous poet.

Ooh I know who it is...no idea of the book though. I'll toss out a guess and say B Blakes' Songs of Experience.

Ha, I knew you would at the very least know that it is Blake, sin.

But its actually one of his longer poems...almost a book, its so long.....

I think I might have an idea. I'm not nearly as well versed in poetry. I tend to have my favorites and then everything else is pretty scattered. I'll let Sin have a run at it whilst I ponder further.

Very nice choice choosing Blake, Ish!

PRG, Thanks for sharing an enjoyment of the ol' Billy Blake....he's like oxygen to me.
Keep going boys....I'm dying of anticipation...

Whoa! You're way ahead of me. He never let me call him Bill.

We shared an mutual opium hallucination one evening by the Thames.
Ish?, he said.
Yes, Bill?, I replied.
He eyed me with his one good lens, glared for a good 10 seconds, and then began to sing.....

Anybody know it yet?

I'm pretty confident in my guess now. I had it narrowed down to two, and I checked one of them and it wasn't it. This means it can only be Jerusalem.

Like I said above, a fine choice. It's probably been close to ten years since I read it, but I'll definitely have to dig it up and read it again.

May you always walk in green and pleasant lands, PRG.
Over to you...

Since PRG clearly prefers the back end of this game, rather than the front end, I'll go ahead and take his turn.

"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling- a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension- becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it."

Bon chance!

Is this by any chance, Casino Royale ?

Nice pick up, Ish. People forget that Ian Fleming could actually be a decent writer. You're on.

Oh, yeah k/c! I'm a big apologist for Mr. Fleming.
Me and Anthony Burgess had our own fan club for a while.

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

Hows that for a quote?

Sinister and I know this book all too well, Ish. Did I tell you that for his class speech this year, his topic is an argument against the teaching of so-called "intelligent design" in the classroom!

Intelligent design!? Bah! They've obviously never seen a penguin!

I know this one, too. I think the author's understanding is a bit hazy, but whaddyagonnado? I still commend him for putting it out there.

Should we let someone else answer it, or just have Ish post a new one since we're pretty much the only three who guess anyway?

Well, in fairness, my fellow bookworms, somebody else should post, since my quote was indeed intelligently spotted.